Pat Buchanan at
World Net Daily:
Fallin’s action seems a harbinger of
what is to come in America – an era of civil disobedience like the
1960s, where court orders are defied and laws ignored in the name of
conscience and a higher law.
Only this time, the rebellion is likely to arise from the right.
Certainly, Americans are no strangers to lawbreaking. What else was
our revolution but a rebellion to overthrow the centuries-old rule and
law of king and parliament, and establish our own?
U.S. Supreme Court decisions have been defied and those who defied
them lionized by modernity. Thomas Jefferson freed all imprisoned under
the sedition act, including those convicted in court trials presided
over by Supreme Court justices. Jefferson then declared the law dead.
Some Americans want to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill with
Harriet Tubman, who, defying the Dred Scott decision and fugitive slave
acts, led slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
New England abolitionists backed the anti-slavery fanatic John Brown,
who conducted the raid on Harpers Ferry that got him hanged but helped
to precipitate a Civil War.
That war was fought over whether 11 Southern
states had the same right to break free of Mr. Lincoln’s Union as the
13 colonies did to break free of George III’s England.
Millions of Americans, with untroubled consciences, defied the Volstead Act, imbibed alcohol and brought an end to Prohibition.
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